Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-81908-9
Lies and manipulation are the only methods Copper knows for handling with her unstable family life. She is sent to live with her Aunt Dorothy when her parents aren't around to care for her, but Dorothy's rule is rigid and Copper is sent to another...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Puffin Books $4.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-130059-7
""DeClements creates memorable incidents with her large group of well-delineated characters,"" said PW of this story set in an alternative high school for troubled kids. Ages 12-up. (Dec.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author Marshall Cavendish Children's Books $14.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7614-5021-4
""Everything had been easy until sixth grade,"" laments DeClements's (Nothing's Fair in the Fifth Grade) refreshingly candid heroine at the opening of this thoughtful if inconsistent novel. The source of Gretchen's difficulty is Marybelle, a new...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-036567-2
Describing the friendship between two sixth-grade girls, one of them homeless, DeClements ``deftly stages an affecting drama,'' said PW. Ages 8-12. (Dec.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (137p) ISBN 978-0-14-034443-1
This winner of 13 state ``children's favorite'' awards shows Jenny and her friends as they struggle through elementary school injustices. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-032760-1
The author of Nothing's Fair in the Fifth Grade provides two more insightful portraits of elementary school life. Ages 8-12. (Jan.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $13.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-84038-0
Given DeClements's previous, engaging novels for middle-graders ( Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade ; Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You ), her latest is somewhat of a letdown. It focuses on Caitlin, a good-natured sixth-grader who shoulders a good deal of
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Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-82290-4
Until her mother's death, Marianne was an attentive, motivated student. Now she daydreams in class and doesn't do her work, despite the efforts of her father and her teacher. To Marianne, school is not as relevant to her life as worrying about the...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $13.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-385-30158-9
DeClements's characterizations and plot are equally strong in this poignant novel about a sixth grader and his relationships with his parents and friends. As in Five-Finger Discount , the author focuses on Jerry Johnson, whose father has served time
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Barthe DeClements, Author Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers $14 (130p) ISBN 978-0-385-30503-7
Life isn't getting any simpler for Jerry Johnson, the sympathetic character featured in DeClements's Five Finger Discount and Monkey See, Monkey Do . Caught stealing while on parole, his father is once again back in prison, and his mother has...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Scholastic $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-41812-6
From the author of many humorous books, including Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade , comes the story of Copper, who, after being shunted from one relative's house to another, ends up with her dreaded Aunt Maggiewho turns out not to be the weirdo...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $12.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-670-80768-0
DeClements's novels for preteens have become quite popular. Her latest story concentrates upon students who have chosen or been forced to attend an alternative high school. Didi is there because she becomes truant during her mother's terminal...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Puffin Books $3.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-037075-1
Calling it a ""realistic portrait of a likable family,"" PW praised this ""endearing and lively tale"" of a boy who has trouble keeping his temper. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $13.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-85619-0
The acclaimed author of Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade and The Pickle Story here offers another believable slice of middle-grade life. Nine-year-old Jenna, the narrator, and 13-year-old Mike, to whom the title refers, live with their parents in the...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Viking Children's Books $13.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-85101-0
DeClements ( Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade ; Wake Me at Midnight ) here deftly stages an affecting drama starring two sixth-grade girls. Though Paula, who lives in a small house near Seattle with her mother and grandmother, has little in the way of...
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Barthe DeClements, Author Yearling Books $3.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40675-4
Out on parole, Jerry Johnson's father forges an uneasy relationship with his son; according to PW , ``characterizations and plot are equally strong in this poignant novel.'' Ages 9-12. (Aug.)
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Barthe DeClements, Author, Christopher Greimes, With Puffin Books $4.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-14-038560-1
In this epistolary novel, separated twins find themselves in danger and must rely on telepathic powers to save each other. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)
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